Author Archives: Hortoris
Trees of Yorkshire Museum Gardens
St Olav’s Church – York Museum Garden I intended to write about six Champion Trees of Yorkshire but discover the subject is fully covered in the Yorkshire museums own web site. Champion trees are the biggest examples in Yorkshire identified … Continue reading
Spectators on Yorkshire Puddings
With no live sporting fixtures or artistic performances where have all the spectators gone? Well one answer is on some form of ‘lock down’ even those who are doing sterling work to keep us live, fed and serviced in all … Continue reading
Two Yorkshire Culinary Favourites Rhubarb & Ginger
It is the time of year when Wakefield rhubarb is in season and gingerbread is never out of season. So here is a combination of these two excellent local products brought together as Rhubarb Gingerbread. I use thicker stalks of … Continue reading
Rainbows – Crock of Gold at the End of Lock Down
Menston Garden Conifers
In addition to Gods Own County I also maintain a gardeners tips web site with over 2000 pages of photos, tips and quirk posts. One of my recent pages … Continue reading
In the Olden Days – Pre Covid 19
Bradford buses used to be blue and people used them. Now they are rainbow of colours and virtually no one uses them for pleasure. With nothing to do with our time we are home cleaning and recycling like mad. This … Continue reading
Ow Much!
A clever shop window sign Ow Much would be even cleverer if I had finished with a ? Queuing for the Otley 20p Shop I currently miss shopping in Otley at the 20p shop! A great concept with everything only … Continue reading
Songs, Ballads & Poetry from at Least 160 Years Ago
Yesterday during the housebound phase of the day I was furtling around my old bookcase and discovered an 1860 edition of ‘Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire’ by C J Davison Ingledew. I was impressed with the half dozen items related … Continue reading
Gisburn and Yorkshire’s White Bull
We want it back! Gisburn is a ‘West Riding’ village in the Ribble Valley on our border with Lancashire. The natural and historic affinity with Yorkshire was usurped during some misguided county reorganisation and Lancashire was given primogenitor. The quiet … Continue reading
Grand Old Duke
When I titled this as the Grand Old Duke I was thinking of York but the heritage spud not the second son of the Queen (you could say her errant spud.) Prince Andrew former husband of Fergie (Sarah Ferguson) and … Continue reading